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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1956
Page
3
Plover area residents share social visits and club meetings while students from the Plover School compete at state music contest. Obituary notes honor Aldolph Parradee of Plover. Church schedules list services and events across Plover and surrounding towns.
Advertisement claims 3 out of 4 women find glorious relief from headaches cramps and nervous tension by taking Pinkham's Vegetable Compound or tablets with added blood-building iron. Encourages starting this month and notes availability at druggists.
Mrs Lent notes a unit on Little Black Sambo with a film strip. Easter week featured six little yellow chickens under a warm lamp. Students observed chicks drinking and on bulletin boards displayed robins and blue birds with nests eggs and fledglings.
The report notes second graders finished More Friends And Neighbors and started New Friends while five students Susan Steven Debbie Becky and David earned 100 in spelling across the week. First graders made health posters on Good Teeth and enjoyed storytelling and movie slides including Little Black Sambo.
The class examined film strips on Pocahontas and Betsy Ross as part of history. All present earned perfect marks on the six weeks spelling test except Lois who was absent.
The Junior High reports 47 students attended a skating party in Emmetsburg led by Arnie Christensen. Eighth graders plan a graduation program with color, flower, and motto, and are exploring new math with equations.
In civics class you study proper display of Old Glory while D.M.T. school hosted a two day music contest at Bode on April 13 and 14. Eleven entries earned I and II ratings with performances by Richard Leh nus Lecl Diggs Kathy Majoro wicz Joan Ritgers Karen Truelsen and others across trombone solos vocal solos trios quartets and bands.
Pocahontas County Extension Director notes hog prices led price strength with hog slaughter set to fall faster than cattle. Beef supply to rise mainly in early 1956 on older steers, with grass fed steers entering markets mid to late summer depending on weather.
The note predicts wider margins between upper and lower grades of steers and heifers in late 1956 than in the prior year. Pocahontas County plans a 4-H program for 1956 57 with a planning meeting set for April 23. Committee members include Girls and Boys 4-H leaders and Jim Martin of Rolfe, with local refinements from Fonda Gilmore City Varina Pomery relations and district members.
A district livestock training school will be held for extension workers of Northwest Iowa at Emmetsburg next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 24 and 25. Attending from Pocahontas county will be County Extension Youth Assistant Kenneth Bauge and County Extension Director E. I. Rosenberger. Results on the livestock research work will be reviewed and new recommendations in light of recent research results will be discussed.
County extension director Lester Justice reports 98.6 percent of Pocahontas dairy herds selling milk to Calhoun county creameries are Brucellosis Free. Of 72 dairymen, only one herd shows a suspect cow, with overall improvement across the county over two years.
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